What Kind of Dialogue Is Luciano Writing?

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In 2002, a comedy writer at the CBC was asked to write dialogue for Queen Elizabeth II's visit. Luciano: "Everything that is going to be said to the Queen during this visit, it must be written out in advance" He says his boss told him he would have to send all the dialogue to Buckingham Palace for approval. For like a month, Luciano's writing this dialogue for 30 people and he's sending it to Buckingham Palace. They're coming back with these notes. You can't hug her. Unless she asks for one. One of the protocols that still blows away is they tell you, oh, don't ask if the jewels are real because they're real. That

The whole conceit of this show is that if look at the world in the right way, you’ll see stories everywhere. Some of the stories are epic power struggles chronicling the construction of a famous skyscraper or the founding of a city; but other stories are more modest, smaller in scope and scale. We call those mini-stories and they're part of an ongoing, end-of-the-year tradition in which 99pi producers and friends of the show talk to host Roman Mars about something cool and fun that you can tell your friends or family about during a holiday get together.

You’ll hear about a very, very long escalator! Beavers dropping from the sky! We’ll hear from Janet, Miss Jackson if you’re nasty! Plus a visit from the queen!

Mini-Stories 15: Volume 15